Tuesday, February 01, 2005

US encouraged by Vietnam vote

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There's nothing to be learned from the past. Just move along. Nothing to see here, nothing to see.

Oh, wait, except for the 1950s. Now, there was a time. Men were men, women were women (staying at home cooking and wearing pearls while they kept the house nice and clean), kids were well-behaved, and black folks and other minorities knew their place.

Quote of the Day
"When we get back to the states... ," NBC news anchor Brian Williams, forgetting he was in the United States

"...all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." ---Abraham Lincoln, First Innaugural Address......USA 2005--BE A BETTER ANGEL

FOR THE WAR? CLICK BELOW. AGAINST THE WAR? CLICK BELOW

"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood to do the fighting for them."
--Emma Goldman, 1917

"When we get injured, all it says is `one soldier wounded,' " Specialist Acosta said, echoing others at Walter Reed. "Not that a soldier has lost an arm or a leg, or how hard that is."

"The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable," Nethercutt, R-Wash. "It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."

THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ-- NEED YOU

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy
are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS." Mahatma Gandhi

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." --Bertrand Russell

"My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred." --Albert Einstein

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." --Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967